It is a statutory requirement under the Mental Health Act 2014 (MHA 2014) that all notifiable incidents pertaining to psychiatric patients are reported to the Chief Psychiatrist as soon as practicable, ideally within 48 hours of the event.

The Chief Psychiatrist is responsible for overseeing the treatment and care of voluntary, involuntary, mentally impaired accused clients, and patients referred or detained under the MHA 2014. Notifiable incidents must be reported to the Chief Psychiatrist for persons receiving psychiatric care as:

an inpatient of a mental health service,

an inpatient of a general health service receiving concurrent treatment from mental health services,

All deaths of patients within three months of their discharge/deactivation from Mental Health Services that the service becomes aware of.

All deaths of active patients which do not fall within categories reported through Datix CIMS.

Names or personally identifiable characteristics of staff and others (who are not a patient) involved in, or witness to, the incident.

The form can be electronically submitted in Explorer. If you are using Google Chrome, please download the form and save it your desktop. Then open it from your desktop and complete the form and click ‘save.’ Then attach the completed form to an e-mail and send to monitoring@ocp.wa.gov.au